Head-to-Head
· Italy beat Slovenia earlier this tournament 3-0 in the group stage, one of two losses for Slovenia this tournament. They also lost their opening match versus Czech Republic (3-1).
· Slovenia won the only other EuroVolley match versus Italy, 3-1 in the 2015 semi-finals. Slovenia lost the final 3-0 to France.
· Italy beat Slovenia 3-1 in the first round of the 2018 World Championship. Italy finished fifth in that tournament, while Slovenia came 12th.
· Earlier this year Slovenia beat Italy 3-0 in the round robin of the 2021 Volleyball Nations League. Slovenia went on to lose the bronze medal match versus France (3-0), while Italy finished 10th.

Slovenia
· Slovenia have reached the EuroVolley final for the third time in the last four editions, after 2015 (runners-up) and 2019 (runners-up). They did not finish higher than eighth in their other six participations.
· With their two second places, Slovenia is already the country with the most EuroVolley finals played without ever winning. Only Italy (4), Russia (3) and France (3) have lost more than two EuroVolley finals.
· Slovenia can become the first team since Italy in 2003 to win the European title after finishing runners-up at the previous edition.
· Slovenia reached the final by beating Poland 3-1 in the semi-finals, winning the fourth set 37-35. Those 72 points were the highest number of points in a set in the 2021 EuroVolley.
· Since 2015, Slovenia have won 19 matches in the European Championship in four participations, after winning only a total of three matches in their first four participations.
· Tonček Stern (110) has won the most points for Slovenia in the final round of this tournament. Stern scored a team-high 20 points in the semi-final against Poland. In the 2019 edition, Tine Urnaut (115) finished as Slovenia's top scorer.

Italy
· Italy are unbeaten in the 2021 European Championship (W8-L0), only losing three sets in total: 3-1 versus Bulgaria and Czech Republic in the group stage, and versus Serbia in the semi-finals.
· Italy remained unbeaten in their title runs in the European Championships in 2003 and 1993.
· Italy have reached the final of the European Championships for a record-extending 11th time. Their most recent appearance in the final came in 2013, when they finished runners-up to Russia.
· Italy won the European title on six occasions, most recently in 2005 when they defeated Russia in the final. The only other team to have won the title more than three times is Russia (14, including 12 as Soviet Union).
· Italy can record at least nine wins in a European Championship for the first time.
· Alessandro Michieletto is Italy's leading points scorer on 116 points. At EuroVolley 2019, Ivan Zaytsev (103) collected the most points for the Italians.
· Only Croatia's Leo Andric (23) has delivered more aces than Michieletto (18) in this year's final round.